Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with indermediate gear
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13249837Application Date: 2011-09-30
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Publication No.: US08342523B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Kei Ishida
- Applicant: Kei Ishida
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2008-221999 20080829; JP2008-222008 20080829
- Main IPC: B65H5/06
- IPC: B65H5/06

Abstract:
A pair of conveyor rollers arranged in an image forming apparatus to convey a recording sheet is configured to be shiftable relative to the body between a first position and a second position. A first holding member is configured to support one of the conveyor rollers so that the supported conveyor roller is swingable around a pivot to allow the pair of conveyor rollers to be shifted between the first position and the second position. The first holding member including a sheet guide portion which provides a variable-position guideway extending from a position located upstream along the sheet conveyance path toward a peripheral surface of the supported conveyor roller, where the sheet guide portion moves to a position suitable to guide the recording sheet to be nipped by the pair of conveyor rollers at least when the pair of conveyor rollers is shifted to the first position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120068403A1 Image Forming Apparatus Public/Granted day:2012-03-22
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